Book Review: Lament for the Fallen by Gavin Chait
“Review a little history and you’ll see that creators seem to find inspiration in adversity.” – Gavin Chait, Lament for the Fallen On the surface Gavin Chait’s debut novel Lament for the Fallen seems...
View ArticleIn just a decade, ‘content’ trumped ‘news’ (and those who reported it)
Ten years has seen the evisceration of newsrooms; the alteration of form, function, and distribution of information; and the emergence of a distorted public discourse. Oh, joy. Since 2007, I’ve...
View ArticleFake news. Who should be the judge?
ZOMG!!1! I saw this meme, or was it a tweet? Or a meme of a tweet? on the internet today, and it looked really urgent and seemed legit and everything, because it had quotes. And it told me to share, …...
View ArticleThe Mature Society, pt 1: 1984 vs Brave New World
Part 1 in a series. by Dr. Michael Tracey We live in a moment of hyper-consumerism, uber-war and insidious surveillance by a vast security apparatus. But what might it look like if Orwell and Huxley...
View ArticleBoaty McBoatface, Footy McFooty Face and Trumpkin: WHY do people keep asking...
San Diego’s MLS hopefuls and Crayola ought to have learned from history. #NewCrayonColors It started innocently enough in 2012, when the geniuses at Mountain Dew decided to ask the Internet’s help in...
View ArticleThey’re having an online contest to name April’s calf: what are the odds on...
What could possibly go wrong? Didn’t we just discuss this, people? I mean, it’s like nobody reads me at all. See the details for yourself…
View ArticlePedophilia and our sexualized media: is naïveté a good thing or a bad thing?
The Mr. C case has me wondering if widespread familiarity with sexual themes and content makes today’s youth more or less susceptible to pedophiles. Part 2 of a series. Yesterday I reflected on the...
View ArticleFreedom of the press means little if audiences are trapped in bubbles
A free press won’t amount to squat as long as it has audiences who hear only what they want to hear, read only what their Facebook-sculpted algorithms tell them to read, and worship blissfully at the...
View ArticleWant to save local news? Kill off local newspapers. Really.
Consider this verdict based on the evidence of economics: Local print newspapers ought to die. Now. That’s what one observer believes, and he’s pretty convincing. Newspapers are on their deathbeds now,...
View ArticleA tale of newspapers’ financial collapse in three charts …
Three charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, two covering about 15 years, bluntly demonstrate the swift collapse of the centuries-old newspaper industry business model. They also herald the rise...
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